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Welcome, the visitors to Catalyst Glass City. I am the mayor Eric Jeppesen, please let me introduce the city and hope you have a good time travelling around.

[POPULATION] 3 500 000

[FEATURE] + Semi-DIY Airport

+ Expressway System (RHM works)

+ Maglev

+ DIY Train Station and Rail System

+ Huge Seaport

+ Intl Passenger Port

+ Environment

+ Amazing Buildings

+ …

1 INTERCITY TRANSPORTATIONCatalyst Glass City has an Intl Airport, owned 2 runways and 2 terminals. Besides, 3 CARGO terminals and a helipad for CGPD also being deployed here.

Each Terminal’s Departure and Arrival has Expressway Link to city’s hotspots. Passengers can transform Metro, Maglev or Intercity Bus freely.
It has many hi-tech companies set their factories around the Intl Airport to expand their business.

Only by air transport is difficult to solve the huge demand for freight. Catalyst Glass also has a huge deep-water seaport to handling containers. A power plant is seated nearby to support whole city’s power.

Precisely because Catalyst Glass is a coastal city so a passenger seaport was built. Everyday visitors were delivered by cruise ships to our city.

People in neighboring cities can travel by train or High Speed Rail to Catalyst Glass. Our city has a central train station and 2 small countryside link stations. In order not to let the freight train into the city center caused by noise pollution, our city built a freight railway in rural area to avoid this (see UPDATE 1).

Of course, the road traffic is also not to be ignored. Catalyst Glass has an Intercity Buses Terminal to transport rural passengers.

2CITY TRANSPORTATION

As a metropolitan, metro lines are essential. High density Metro Network linked the whole city together.

Besides, Maglev Monoraill is faster than metro. But it’s only 2 lines with 2 branch lines which one of them is link to passenger seaport and another is link to Olympic Centre.

In ground, BRT (Bus Rapid Transport) System has their Bus-only lanes as metro’s supplement.

The city is proud of the elevated expressway. You can drive freely cross the city. Overpasses ensured the rapid pass of the vehicles.

3AMAZING BUILDINGS

Flourishing financial industry let the people get rich and their companies owned a lot of skyscrapers in city central and city subsidiary-centres such as Financial Street and The View. Here comes the Central Business District.

The View.

South Lake.

Financial Street.

And Wanda Plaza. Art museum and City Museum were placed here.

Here, we have to mention the building is located at the northern end of Dongting Lake: The Shard. Which is 1050 meters high, Standing on the top of the viewing platform, you can overlook the whole city.

At the foot of it is a golf course and a general aviation airport. And you can see the North Railway Station at left side of photo.

4ENVIRONMENT

The city is not composed of reinforced concrete. Some environment friendly spots spread throughout the city.

Another place is the bay bridge at Southern of the city. Opera House and sailboat bay located in there.

In order to commemorate the city's economic take-off, we built this monument: IND Tower. It stands in the south of the harbour, watching the city step by step development.

5 AFTER DARK

Night of the city, more brilliant.

6BIRD’S EYE VIEW

Exhausting my eyes to a thousand li further, I am ascending one more story of the tower.

7 SATELLITE MAP

EOM Author's words

Hi, folks.

Thanks for watching my CJ – Catalyst Glass!

I’m a university student that living in Beijing, and my university is Shijiazhuang Tiedao University（石家庄铁道大学）. If you are living in Beijing or Shijiazhuang you can find me.

Except Cities XL series and Mirror’s Edge series, I also loved railway and aviation. Just like Train Simulator and Microsoft Flight Simulator series or Prepar3D. If you love them too you can make friend with me.

You can contact me @eric_jeppesen in Twitter or Tieba, or find me Eric Jeppesen in Steam and Origin.

Thx again for your watching!

Because of XLN has 30 pictures limit, so others detailed description will placed in CJ’s UPDATES tag.

Overview – Exordium of Catalyst Glass

Update 1 - Mass Transportation

Update 2 – Overpasses (RHM works)

Update 3 – Environment

Update 4 – Amazing Buildings

Update 5 – After Dark

Update 6 – Behind the scenes

Besides, Catalyst Glass’ video has been released in YouTube and BiliBili, welcome to have a visit!

Very nice CJ and well presented! I think you've done a great job with the skyline. The RHM looks aewsome, especially the 5-corner interchange! The passenger seaport is great, so is the main railway station... you could have built a "real" modular airport though instead of using the in-game ones ;) I hope you will continue building this city! Great work!

Wonderful editing abilities. RHM is beautiful (a few left handed exits, which are old school but still exist). Great ideas on the monorail and BRT. **I would love to see you do all this again w/out such a 'right-angle' layout. Even if its grided, you can do those at off angles a bit more.

Thx for your reply!
Maybe I influenced by the Chinese ancient city construction in daily life in Beijing(Right angle) and I'm trying to change that in my next city Euphoria. And thx for your suggestion!

WOW! Allright i can say this is a very good job. The lakes and the river really impressed me. I am really agree that you need to show a lot of pictures because every corner is really interesting and i want to see them closer!